Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-21

Copyright, 1885, by the California Assocdted Press
ORovnLE, December 20th.-The arrang-
ing of the exhibits for the Citrus Fair were
fully completed this afternoon, and by this
evenings train three full carloads of pas
sengers from San Francisco and other points
arrived The fair was opened tonight and
proved great success. The pavilion was
crowded almost to suffocation, and the dig
plays of golden fruit in banks and the
many artistic forms and designs mingled in
green foliage made the sights under the
bright illumination of electric lights es-
pecially beautiful. The ordinations of
WONDER AND SURPRISE
At the grand display were heard on every
side, both from strangers and residents.
Everybody is more than satisfied, and have
reason to be. The receipts tonight were
more than the managers had Anticipated
for the entire week.
The Oroville Excelsior Brass Band fur
nished excellent music throughout the
evening from an elevated platform in the
center of the room. A quartet club at
tracted the closest attention by its singing.
1t was entirely concealed within an unique
composed of citrus fruits. having a tower
ing steeple and stained-glass windows. The
singers were accompanied with a cabinet
organ, and the audience maintained the
strictest silence as they sang the opening
piece, Nearer, My God, to Thee"
ADDRESSES, ETC.
Senator Jones called the audience to
order for the literary exercises, and after
brief congratulalory remarks, which re-
ceived loud applause, he introduced Gov
ernor Waterman. The Governor made an
informal address. He referred to his mining
in this vicinity in early days, commencing
on the Middle Fork of the Feather river in
1850, and concluding at Bidwell's Bar. He
said he had visited the ast-named place
to-day, but all things had changed, and
now the far-famed orange tree of Bidwell's
Bar had taken the place of the miners
pick and rocker. That tree is the pioneer
of the grand product and industry being
celebrated here tonight. He said he WIS.,
lied this section last winter, and was
satisfied that it possessed as good
soil and climate for orange culture
as could be found in the State. The COM
pletion of the new railroad to the north
opens new and unlimited market for citrus
fruits throughout the Northern and North
western States and Territories. He advised
every man and woman to engage in orange
growing, as it would soon become a yery
profitable industry, and an oyer-supply
could not be grown. He said he would
not bother much with lemons and lines,
as they were very tender growers, but the
orange trees were harder and would stand
more abuse than any other fruit tree grown
ADVICE TO oRANGE-GRowERs.
Referring to his experience in orange
growing, the Governor advised that in
planting to dig large and deep holes and
fill the same with water, but in the care of
the trees after setting out not to use too
much water, but to induce moisture by
thorough cultivation. He advised not to
plant anything but buddeu trees, rs they
would commence to bear in two or three
years, while seedlings would require eight
or more years before bringing returns He
said that while he believed Butte county
was going TO rival any part of the State in
producing citrus fruits, let US not feel any
strife with any other section. He be-
longed to California. and not to
any particular corner of it. All
the State was grand, and he would sooner
live in the poorest place in California than
in the best place east of the Rocky Mount
aims. Don't tell here in Butte county, ne
continued, that you can beat Los Angeles
or San Bernardino, but go to work and
beat them with your superior fruits and
products, and when you hear of anybody
in the southern part of the Safe talking
against this part of the State you may
know that they are either weak minded or
real estate agents, for most of the people
there are above such diShonorable conduct.
Elk GOVERNOR PERKINS
Was then called from the audience to the
Stand ay,I mazda ha-rv Sr
ing to his old neighbors and friends, and
congratulated them upon the grandest
citrus exhibit ever made in the State, al
though the best yet made was but the be-
ginning of what Butte would DO in the
future. This was showing to the people
of the ice-locked East the mag
ficent climate and home here awaiting
them, and there was room enough
in old Butte for homes for all
who would come. He had spent much of
his life in this vicinity, and yet when he
left here the people had no conception of
the hidden resources about them, and
which present occasion was bringing so
prominently to notice. He remembered
when the bread eaten in this country was
raised and ground in Chile, and it was not
supposed then that wheat could be grown
here, but now Kings, Princes and all
persons of the earth eat the grain shipped
from Butte county. Concluding, the
speaker called on
HON. J. *. LUTTRELL
For speech, but as be is to make an adj
dress tomorrow night he excused himself.
In doing so he made few remarks, in
which he promised the audience that If
they would come and hear him tomorrow
night he would convince them that Amer
lea was The best country on the globe, Call
ifornia was the best State in the nation and
Bate the best county in the Golden State
He referred with high praise to the citrus
exhibition as being without an equal.
and said that if Mother Eve bad been in
California, instead of the Garden of Eden,
she never would have been tempted by
apples, but would have made straight for
the Oroville Citrus Fair and the Butte
county oranges. This concluded the exer-
cises for the evening, but the audience
fingered in the pavilion until far after ten
O'Clock.